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Jacques Rousseau is a lecturer in critical thinking and business ethics at the University of Cape Town. He is the founder and chairperson of the Free Society Institute - http://fsi.org.za - founded in 2009 to promote secular humanism and scientific reasoning in South Africa. Jacques is a regular contributor to public debates on politics, science and morality in the South African media, via columns, op-eds, television and radio. He blogs on these and other topics on Synapses – http://synapses.co.za - and is active on Twitter as @JacquesR . He believes that the world be a far better place if nobody wanted to read clickbait, and could all explain why.

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Election Thoughts: South Africa, 8 May 2019 0
- People, Politics
- 10.05.2019.
Along with many of you on the 8th May, I made a difficult decision regarding which party to vote for in South Africa’s National elections – more difficult than any of the previous 10 (if you include the Municipal elections) were. In one respect, I take that as a positive thing, because competition is good,
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Who to vote for: South African National Elections 2019 0
- Politics, South Africa
- 12.04.2019.
For those of us who don’t reflexively vote for the same political party in every election, regardless of contextual details like their performance, their choice of candidates, and of course their policy platforms, the 2019 National Elections (May 8) might well be the most confounding choice we’ve ever faced. None of the candidates are not
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Raising the Dead: Too Many Questions, But More than Enough Answers 0
- Morality, Religion
- 18.03.2019.
South Africa has a “spiritual vampires” problem, to adapt Susan Gerbic and the Guerrilla Skeptic’s term (“grief vampires”) for people like John Edward, who claim to speak to the dead. But then, I suppose you could say that the whole world does, in that religious leaders who make a living off telling people things they
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Computational propaganda, clickbait, and personal responsibility 0
- Civil Liberties, Democracy, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Media, Social Media
- 11.01.2019.
The proliferation of misinformation on social media – or even just partisan or sensationalistic treatments of politics, science and human relations – could reasonably be considered a threat to democracy itself. When you add computation propaganda to the mix, where bots are deployed to manipulate public opinion, filter-bubbles form even more readily, and you can
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